Research On Mengsong Dialect Of Hani Language In Xishuangbanna

Hani language belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan family.It is divided into three major dialects:Haya dialect,Bika dialect and Haobai dialect.The basic word order of Hani language is SOV,which belongs to the analytical language.Auxiliary and word order are the main means to express grammatical meaning.Mengsong dialect is one of the local language of the Yani sub-dialect of the Haya dialect,and it is the research object of this subject.Under the guidance of linguistic theory,this study describes and analyzes of the phonetics,lexicon and grammar of the Mengsong dialect by using field investigation and synchronic descriptive methods,and explore the basic characteristics of the Hani Mengsong dialect.This paper consists of four chapter and five parts.The part one:Introduction.This chapter focuses on the introduction of the Hani nationality in Xishuangbanna,and population distribution,geographical location and migration history of Mengsong,as well as the origin,significance and methods of the research on this subject.Besides,gives a brief discussion on the research situation of the Hani language and the research trends of the Yani sub-dialect of Hani language.The part two:phonetics.This chapter describes and analyzes the consonants,vowels,tones,syllable structure and Chinese loanwords of the Hani language Mengsong dialect.Establish the phoneme system by analyzing a large number of corpus.The consonant part explains that voiceless consonants and voiced consonants;aspirated consonants and unaspirate consonants,and the combination rules of vowel and consonant.In the vowel portion introduces that tensity and laxity of vowels;the keeping situation of nasal consonant;the self-syllabic features of vowels,and the accompanying effect of the vowels' tensity and laxity.The tone section introduces the basic tones and tone sandhi.It describes three basic tones:the high flat tone(55);the medium flat tone(33);the low flat tone(31),and illustrates the presence of high flat tones(55)on tensity vowels.The tone sandhi section introduces types of tone sandhi:tone sandhi,grammatical tone sandhi and numeral tone sandhi.The syllable sector describes four structure types of combination of sound and rhyme.The Chinese loanwords section introduces the pronunciation and characteristics of Chinese words in mengsong dialect.The part three:lexicon.The chapter describes and analyzes the lexicon classification and word-formation of the Mengsong dialect of Hani language.Monosyllabic,disyllabic and polysyllabic words are introduced from the perspective of syllable structure.The monosyllabic simple words;disyllabic simple words and polysyllabic simple words,as well as root-compound and additive compound words are introduced form the perspective of morpheme structure.In terms of word formation,this paper introduces the compound method and the additive method,and points out that the compound method can be divided into subject-verb structure,verb-object structure,biased structure and juxtaposition structure,and the additional method has two methods:pre-addition method;post-addition method.The part four:grammar.This chapter describes and analyzes the features of the Mengsong dialect of Hani language.To begin with,this chapter divides the word class and analyzes the characteristics and syntactic functions of each word class.It points out that there are ten types of word class in Mengsong dialect:noun,verb,adjective,quantifier,adverb,pronoun,numeral,conjunction,auxiliary and interjection,and each word class acts as subject,predicate,object,adverbial modifier or complement in a sentence.Then,this paper divides the sentence into declarative sentence,interrogative sentence,imperative sentence and exclamatory sentence from the perspective sentence class.It also can be divided single sentence and complex sentence from the perspective of sentence structure,single sentence includes adjective predicate sentence,verb predicate sentence,noun predicate sentence and subject-predicate predicate sentence.Complex sentences are divided into joint complex sentences and partial complex sentences.The former shows juxtaposed,continuous,progressive or selective,while the latter shows transitional,conditional,hypothetical or causal.The part five:Conclusion.The epilogue part expounds the recognizing of the phonetics,lexicon and grammar of the Mengsong dialect of Hani language and the shortcomings of the article.